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The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.